There were a few problems I had, which were eventually resolved.
The first problem was not using a boot floppy. I mistakenly thought one could boot into dos from the pc's harddrive. Making a boot floppy is easy once you know how. In windows 95, go to control panels, then something like make new file or disc, then select the windows 95 startup disc tab and make the floppy. The computer requested the windows 95 cd, to finish creating the boot disk.
I then copied the 4 flash files onto the boot floppy. Actually, the 4 flash files didn't all fit, so I threw out the scandisk.exe file. Fortunately, the computer didn't need this file to boot from the floppy. To boot from the floppy, just shut down the computer, insert floppy, press power button and wait for the a:\> prompt. That is the prompt I got, not a: > as indicated in the flash manual.
The next problem was that after I ran the flash instructions, one of the 4 flash files could not be read/found (I guessed it was due to general floppy unreliability). I had to shut down, throw out the bad file and copy a good version of the file onto the floppy.
Another minor problem, was that I was not able to save the pc rom. I ran the program and it didn't seem to work. It was too late however, to go back, so I ran the flash instructions and voila. There was a pause while the flash was running, and then it said the flash was done. I then placed the video card in my s900 and it worked.
Windows work much better now (dragging, resizing), as does the screensaver. Before, screensaver pictures wouldn't zoom and fade, now they work great. iTunes performance isn't much better, even with OpenGL checked, but I'm still running in 10.2.3. I will upgrade very shortly to a newer version, as I understand, newer versions have better radeon drivers.
I also ran pci extreme 2 to enable quartz extreme, and checked it with QuartzExtreme Check.
Thanks to everyone on the list for their input!
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